Ishaq Oloyede, the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Registration Board, JAMB, has put up an anti-corruption unit within the examination body to prevent mismanagement of funds in the examination body.
The Trent recalls that a mysterious snake was alleged to have broken into the JAMB’s vault at its Benue State Office in Makurdi, leading to the unknown whereabouts of a total of N36 million.
He revealed this during the induction of members of the Anti-Corruption Transparency Unit, ACTU, which was conducted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC.
The JAMB boss in a statement on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, by the ICPC said the unit was established based on the numerous corruption matters been handled, a situation he said was beginning to have adverse effect on his other responsibilities.
The statement which was signed by Rasheedat Okoduwa, the spokesperson for ICPC, stated further that Oloyede explained the processes that led to returning of N7.8 billion to government coffers as revenue in 2017 by the examination body saying that government never expected such huge amount from the agency.
“The JAMB officer with me in that meeting advised that I should say the agency would be able to return about N600 million.
“But at the end of the day, we returned N7.8 billion,” Okoduwa quoted him as saying
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